There are at least 50 coercive control cases currently under investigation or with the DPP for consideration, Garda sources have said. Gardaí expect a series of coercive control cases, some involving extreme physical and sexual violence, to come before the courts this year.
News that the volume of cases gardaí were dealing with was increasing comes a day after the first man convicted of the crime after a trial was jailed by the courts and two years after coercive control became a specific criminal offence.
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